Biography of Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Rothschild Parker was born on August 22, 1893, in Long Branch, New Jersey. She was the youngest child of three siblings. Her mother Eliza Annie Rothschild was a Scottish descent, and her father was German Jewish descent. Her mother was devout to Catholicism. Her mother (Elizabeth Jane Barrett) was a survivor from the Titanic; she boarded the Titanic as first class passenger. Her mother died in July 1898, after her father remarried to Eleanor Frances Lewis. Dorothy was not close with her stepmother. She an had unhappy childhood, and she was lonely. She later accused her father of being physically abusive. In You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker she shows her father as being a monster. Dorothy’s stepmother was into Roman Catholicism, and Dorothy was sent to a boarding school run by nuns. Dorothy Parker was one of most accomplished feminist in her time and a successful literary writer in history. Dorothy attempted suicide and struggled with alcoholism, and spent some of her years to overcome it. Dorothy Rothschild was known in her time the most significant woman for writing books, poem, and short fictions.

Dorothy Rothschild was sent to Miss Dana’s School on Morristown, New Jersey. The school would make serious efforts to turn their students into well-read, well-informed, and well-spoken young women who would be useful in the world. Dorothy graduated from Miss Diana’s before the school got bankrupt and Diana died. When she was in school, she started to write poems. She sent her poem off to magazines, and one was accepted by Frank Crowninshield, the editor of Vanity Fair. "Mr. Crowninshield, God rest his soul, paid twelve dollars for a small verse of mine and gave me a job on Vogue at ten dollars a...

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...ife that is experienced in America.”( http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/dparker.html). She was fiercely, witty person who tries to make clear in her writing. She had problems in her life such as money problem and love affairs. She wanted to kill herself and was alcoholism. Dorothy was strict on herself to write in the perfect way she can such as like Miss Millay. “She remains one of the most shrewdly sensitive and elegant satirists of the twentieth century.”

Works Cited

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/parker/bio.htm http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/dparker.html http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/parker.html

Keats, John. The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker: You Might As Well Live . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970. 7-305. Print.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAparker.htm